(Tacitus, "Annals", I., 42.) (22) Reading "tenet", with Hosius and Francken; not "timet", as Haskins.

The prospect of inflicting punishment attracted, while the suffering of it subdued, the mutineers.
(23) Caesar was named Dictator while at Massilia.

Entering Rome, he held the office for eleven days only, but was elected Consul for the incoming year, B.C.48, along with Servilius Isauricus.

(Caesar, "De Bello Civili", iii., 1; Merivale, chapter xvi.) (24) In the time of the Empire, the degraded Consulship, preserved only as a name, was frequently transferred monthly, or even shorter, intervals from one favourite to another.
(25) Caesar performed the solemn rites of the great Latin festival on the Alban Mount during his Dictatorship.
(Compare Book VII., line 471.) (26) Dyrrhachium was founded by the Corcyreams, with whom the Homeric Phaeacians have been identified.
(27) Apparently making the Danube discharge into the Sea of Azov.
See Mr.Heitland's Introduction, p.

53.
(28) At the foot of the Acroceraunian range.
(29) Caesar himself says nothing of this adventure.